Discussion of the CNJ (aka the Jersey Central) and predecessors Elizabethtown and Somerville, and Somerville and Easton, for the period 1831 to its inclusion in ConRail in 1976. The historical society site is here: http://www.jcrhs.org/

As part of a project to deepen and widen Newark Bay for bigger ships the Army Corp of Engineers are planning to blast the surviving concrete pilings of the old Newark Bay Lift Bridge. Which doesn't make much sense to me as the don't really stick out into the bay all that far. Are they going to dredge right up to the shoreline? Anyway attached is the link to the story.